John Milton's Cottage at Chalfont St

Giles, Bucks. Here Milton finished Paradise Lost and began Paradise Regained . The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , 1645. He defended the execution of Charles I., and was Latin Secretary to the Council of State 1649-60, though blind from 1654. At the Restoration he was in danger, and thereafter under a cloud. Paradise Lost appeared 1667, Paradise Regained 1671, Samson Agonistes 1671, and a History of Britain 1670. Doctrina Christian a , brought to light 1823-25, displays Arian opinions. His fame, like that of Shakespeare, was mainly posthumous.